The first real snow of winter

Dale didn't know quite what to do with himself.

First, he stepped a little gingerly..."what is this stuff?"

After doing his business, he tried sniffing the snow. But that didn't work, because sniffing the snow only succeeded in snorting it up his nose...and the only way to get snow out of one's nose is to sneeze it out.

So then he just ran around in it. "Weeeee! This is kinda fun."

Then he got hit in the face with a loosely packed snowball! "Whoa! What was that! Do it again!"

So he chased snowballs, trying to pick them up. And when that didn't work, he dug at them.

Finally, he noticed something. "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!"

He lept across the yard jumping as high as he could snapping at the snowflakes trying to catch as many as he possibly could.

I tried not to let go of the leash while I laughed.

I'm only sorry I don't have pictures.